What’s with This Floss Dance?

On 03/04/2019 at 11:38 PM by KnightDriver

Let me describe my history with this dance move, because it has haunted me for a month now ever since I first saw it.

I first came across it as a dance emote in Forza Horizon 4. You can assign victory dances to your character that show at the end of races. I thought this was a particularly zany and silly dance move. It made me laugh immediately.

Then, while watching TV with my friend Mark, I saw numerous commercials where someone was doing The Floss. I thought, that’s funny, why is it so popular suddenly?

Then I read on wiki, that The Floss emoji had been removed from Forza Horizon 4. The reason, according to wiki, is that Russel Horning’s mom (Russel Horning having performed the dance on SNL in 2017) sued Epic Games over it being in Fortnight. Then Playground Games removed it from Forza Horizon 4 to avoid a similar suit. I will check myself that it’s not in Forza Horizon 4 tomorrow.

Then I watched the youtube video above that shows Russel Horning introducing it to the world on SNL in 2017. But the fact that it is in Fortnight explains everything to me as to why it’s popular now, and why I see kids doing it in commercials. Mystery solved.

Super Step Contributing Writer

03/04/2019 at 11:43 PM

It's funny cause I saw that performance when it aired and everyone hated Katy Perry at the time for some reason, but the kid's dance took off.

KnightDriver

03/04/2019 at 11:47 PM

The skits they mentioned in the video were familiar to me, so maybe I saw it too, but maybe I didn't watch through the music act.

Joaquim Mira Media Manager

03/05/2019 at 12:12 AM

I remember seeing this on Reddit. People were posting videos of other kids doing it years before this kid.

03/05/2019 at 12:14 AM

Wiki mentioned someone else who did it on youtube a few years before. I guess it's gone viral a few times.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

03/05/2019 at 06:10 PM

We live in a weird world, my friend.

03/07/2019 at 08:59 AM

I'm constantly quoting from Lexx, "so far, so weird".

goaztecs

03/11/2019 at 12:23 PM

Well how about that, I thought it came from Fortnite.

03/13/2019 at 12:28 AM

It's apparently gotten popular in schools. And, I saw it again today in some commercial I hadn't seen before. And, I swear a dog was doing it in a Facebook video, or as close as a dog can do it. Why, oh why?

PixlBit